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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower

Request for advanced monitoring for DataPower. Sysdig exporters are available for both Redis and RabbitMQ. A Bank is seeking similar type IBM cloud workload monitoring for DataPower.. Monitoring and around CPU, Memory, I/O Disk, Monitoring the num...
about 1 month ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

historical baseline available for memory usage which can be used to set an alert.

There are currently no historical baselines available for memory usage that can be used to configure a static threshold-based alert. Since memory usage can vary significantly, it is not feasible to define a fixed threshold value (e.g., 60% or 10%)...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 2

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
5 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.We check the following url how to match the request.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-ex...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Log integrations with Grafana Loki logs system

We would like have option to integrate Grafana Loki logs managment with Instana. We are using IBM Openshift environment that ships application and inftrastructure logs to Loki.
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration